At the turn of the twentieth century, newspapers and magazines touted quack cures and healing cults...
Twin Cities Area
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Originally named the Palazzo, the Colonnade Hotel opened on St. Peter Street in Saint Paul in 1888...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wilder Public Baths
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Greater Minnesota
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
Welcome To Dotson
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Endion Depot In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome To Cobden
Hanover Bridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Old School In Wolverton
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
District 48 School Near Delano
Old Brewery In Preston
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Moving Old Hibbing
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome to Hanska
Florence Town Hall
Green Lake Mounds
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lost Highway 61
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring Sandstone
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Le Sueur Theater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Remembering Quadna Resort
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
District 6 School in New Sweden
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Little Marais Inn
Taylor House In Le Sueur
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Milford Monument
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Visiting Golden Gate
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Meyer School In St Augusta
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Enter Marlon Brando
Jordan Brewery Complex
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring Ottawa
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Moderne New Ulm Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Franconia
Ruins of Sawyer School
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Little Falls Depot
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

